North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico

Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia

Area

9,826,675 km sq

56,594 km sq

Coastline

19,924 km

5,835 km

Climate

mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains